The Sequel / What the Great War will mean to Australia

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till novel enough to be repeatedly fired on by our own side. Why the beggars in our own battery, when they see an aeroplane overhead in their excitement let fly. They don't bother to noti

gust on an unoffending fly,

y School at San Diego, and "hiked ove

ose that suggested the bird-man. His name on the roll was Walter

discipline, but aviators clear the usual wall of demarcation between office

recognised by achievement. In fact, the new arm was too new to be brought under th

ng end and teach things 'to the man behind the gun'; but I've a bit of dope here that ought to be pasted into every book of yo

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came in to

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world and

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above, a bir

an aerial

canvas, sti

n fighting

bove those h

brain beg

me fabric remnants patching the plane, whilst I rea

e first machine got up and made good-where the man the world had waited for for ages, Wilbur Wright (though

the dawn light to call us aloft for our dail

e. We're the spoilt kids of the earth, always wanting a new toy. When we tired of straight flying, we went in for circus stunts; such as spiral turning, volplaning, upside-down flying and looping the loop. We interested the crowd for a while, as there was a chance of some of us smashing up. But when f

n a fix till this war came along and called him over. Orville Wright is trying to make a do of his factory. It is significant that Captain Mitchell, of the U.S. Signal Corps, the other day asked the U.S. Governmen

e from under the tree screen. The propeller hummed, dragged us acros

ot safe and sa